I was never so embarassed in my LIFE than the time we went to the Red Lobster in Atlanta, GA when I was a teenager. My maiden name is "FUSCO". Please to not the relative positions of the "S" and the "C". When our name hadn't been called after 45 minutes of waiting and some extremely uncomfortable stares by the hostesses, I was the one relegated to the task of finding out just what the wait was all about. Can you guess why they didn't call our name over the loudspeaker? Anyone? Bueller?Because they had written it down FU*C*S*O. And they were afraid to try and pronounce it.

I'm so glad my last name is Suluh. Because that's a HARD one to screw up. Unless you're a travel agent in the post 9/11 world and you enter it as "Sul*A*h". Which is why I tell people "Like the dude on Star Trek. SULU. SOO LOO".

Signed,The girl who is suck a Trek Geek that she married Suluh.

wv: adamm

Mispronouncing and misspelling my last names has been adamm problem my whole life.

My parents, in an excess of giddiness at their first child AND having watched far too many Flintstones cartoons, used to call me "Grand Royal Purple Pooh-Bah". However, for most of my life, they shortened that to "Pooh-Bah", "Pooh-Bear" (getting their cartoons mixed up), or just "Pooh". Even as a grown woman, I STILL answer to this. I shudder to think what these people would do with such a nickname.

@ mizdarlin - I thought the point was that someone had misspelled "Trudi" with most unfortunate (except for us Wreck lovers) consequences . . .

And speaking of that cake, your warnings are a little too late: my brand new neice has been saddled with the name Trudi. At least it's a middle name, or that poor girl would be facing being called "Turdi" from second grade through middle school. If only this post had been up a week ago!

As for "Richie", "Cubby", and "Bobby" I'm wondering... was that a true accident, or was this another case of "innocently" hinting (as with Jenn marring Troy the other week). This may explain why Cubby's cake is only a lame cookie. So if he chows down on the whole thing, it's not as caloric as eating a big slab cake!

And if honey bunny's hubby's horny, that cake makes perfect sense ;)

PS Empress Nina... I can totally relate. Pretty much anyone who's Mother Tongue is English can't pronounce (or spell) my name. The worst mis-spelling was when they got just one letter right (the "l")!

I wasn't "getting" the Ingus joke. I thought, "huh, what's so wrong with Ingus? It's much better than Anus, right?" And what's with the Colonel bit? But then I read the comment in my best Mississippi accent. And I was shocked, I tell you, shocked by you Jenn! And I used to think you were such a refined young woman. ;-) LOL!

I'm getting a strong hint of intentionality in the 'mis-spelling' of Ritchie's cake.

'Booby' seems to have been the recipient of a radically new take on the cupcake cake. Are those Frosted Flakes?

Poor Turdi. Ya wanna know what someone really thinks of you, just let 'em order your birthday cake. Know what I'm sayin'? That has to be in the running for 'most actively disgusting cake yet' because it's almost good, yet has problems. What on Mars happened on the left side?!

Not sure if it helps or not that I went directly to 'Boney Maroney' on the next one.

At Bitchie I was hooting.At Got Milk I laughed so hard I scared the dog.At Turdi I nearly tripped over the dog trying to race to the bathroom to pee.I came back and saw Honey Boney and nearly woke the neighbors I was nearly screaming with laughter.

Oh my goodness! I thought that honey boney cake was pretty til I saw the writing lol. At least you could read it. Poor booby or bobby..not a good thing. I sure wouldn't have bought that or the turdi cake. Sheesh and I thought my name would be hard for them to spell..

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